Otello

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Leeds Grand Theatre Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber, LS1 6NZ, Reino Unido

Fechas/horas en zona horaria de London

Programa

Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)

Libreto de Arrigo Boito

Intérpretes

Opera North
Tim Albery	Dirección de escena		2013 ene 16, feb Matiné
Orchestra of Opera North			2013 ene 16
Chorus of Opera North			2013 ene 16
Richard Farnes	Dirección		2013 ene 16, feb Matiné
Ronald Samm	Tenor	Otello
David Kempster	Barítono	Iago
Elena Kelessidi	Soprano	Desdemona
Ann Taylor	Mezzosoprano	Emilia
Christopher Turner	Tenor	Roderigo
Henry Waddington	Bajo	Lodovico
Dean Robinson	Bajo	Montano

OTELLO by Giuseppe Verdi (1887)
NEW PRODUCTION
Sung in Italian with English titles
Running time: approx 2 hours 45 minutes

Iago, an ensign in the Venetian army, is a man who bears a grudge. When his general, Otello, passes him over for promotion in favour of Cassio Iago’s festering resentment quickly turns to downright malice, He poisons Otello’s mind with suspicion, and step by step, leads Otello to believe that his young wife Desdemona is in love with the young and handsome Cassio. And so Iago, a man consumed by envy, makes of Otello a monster of murderous jealousy.

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New production of Verdi's Otello from Opera North

Sam Wigglesworth, 21st January

Few operas begin as arrestingly as Verdi’s Otello; no overture here – or, indeed, the first act of Shakespeare’s play. Instead, in a single galvanising orchestral outburst a terrific storm is set in motion, underpinned by the most gratingly dissonant of pedals in the lowest reaches of the organ.

***11